skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, if you're like me, find the one that you have to tolerate least. I find no exercise to be enjoyable. I tolerate a couple things like rowing or walking.
All fair points. You didn’t answer the only question I posed you though.
> so more than 90% of points on a wall are not in front of a sud

That would depend on the wall length, no?

For example, a 1.5"-3" wall has 100% of points on a stud. Also many (most?) traditional residential constructed walls have end plates, at least one top plate, a bottom plate, fire blocking, support, kings, sisters, cripples, jacks, headers, etc.

Anyway, I think its probably safe to say more than 10% of the surface has wood or some other object behind it on many walls, and unlikely that you could "do the math on this" without surveying data.
How could the government systematically get rid of the "unearned part of rent", and why do you think doing so would only slightly lower profit?
I don’t buy that transmissions are somehow unique or even exceptional in motivating improvements in design and materials science. The ICE will benefit from the same improvements and has even more opportunities to utilize those improvements.
This seems to completely disregard the existence of help screens, exploration, and (to some degree) documentation.

A user is not required to know what each button does, because in the first few minutes of using the app, they will press them and find out. Can't easily do that with a drill or a car, but an app has "back" and "undo" buttons.

A user is not required to understand every subtlety of a form, because they can click the "?" button in the corner and get more details. Can't easily build the manual into the side of the drill.

I hate apps that are frustrating and slow to use all the time just so that it can be "intuitive" the first time. The first time only happen once, please don't optimize only for that workflow, and let power users get through the app fast! Offer keyboard shortcuts! Let me customize toolbars and gestures, even if it means making the settings more than one page!

I don't know if this was the author's point or not. I am not sure which direction they were arguing after reading the article twice.
The issue right now is that the housing crisis has progressed to the point where the legal system is breaking down. At least where I live, the landlord and tenant board (which adjudicates claims between landlords and tenants) is backlogged 18-24 months or more. Many tenants realize this and have started taking advantage by refusing to pay rent altogether, knowing they’re protected from eviction by law (until their day comes to be brought before the board).

For their part, landlords have completely lost trust in the system and demand excruciating levels of background checks and references and personal information to try and avoid these bad tenants. All the while raising the rent to exorbitant levels (due to hot real estate market and low vacancies). It’s become an incredibly vicious situation!
Understandably so. People are grateful to someone who's generous to them but contemptuous of someone who gives them what they demand, even when it's the exact same outcome.

A workaround I sometimes use when my kid demands something is to refuse, then shortly after, offer something entirely different, and they're happy.
"Anger, shock" at being required to post the actual price?!

Next: get rid of tipping, or to be more precise, include the tip in the price.
Landlords don't "need" to exist. They simply exist because for everything someone has to own something. Communism doesnt work, I hope that knowledge doesn't have to be relearnt
I still don't understand why this is implemented as a "don't answer these questions" filter because that clearly just means "game the query to make it pass the ban list".

Surely having a separate system run on the output that goes "does this answer say something I don't want the AI to say?" and stopping the stream (and adding the original query to a training set for future iterations) would be more effective?
I use AI systems to keep up with AI research. The telescoping has begun... and we're still near the bottom of the (super?)exponential curve.
This is my new capability- I am not a coder or a programmer and I can get things built, in my own time, at my own speed, solo.

Would it be better code if someone with 3 years of university and 5 years of coding practice did it? Yes, very probably, but the gap seems to be narrowing. Humorously I don't know enough about good code to tell you whether what I build with llms is good code. Sometime I build a function that feels magical, other times it seems like a fragile mess. But I don't know.

Do I know "javascript" or "python" or the theory of good coding practice? No, not currently. But I am building things. Things that I have personal, very specific requirements for.
Where I don't have to liaise or berate someone else. Where I don't have to pay someone else. Where I don't share the recognition (if there is any ever) of the thing, I and only I have produced- (with chatGPT, Gemini and most recently llama3).

Folks have been feeling superior for 70 years and earning a good living because they spoke the intermediary language of compute engines. What makes them actually special NOW is computer science, the theory- the languages, we have very cheap (and in the case of open source local models free) translators for those now. And they can teach you some computer science as well, but that is still time and practice.

I'm the muggle. The blunt. And I'm loving this glowy lantern, this psi-rig.
> The declaration focuses on the most basic kind of consciousness, known as phenomenal consciousness. Roughly put, if a creature has phenomenal consciousness, then it is “like something” to be that creature

a 1995 thought experiment suggested that an etch-a-sketch could also be conscious
Hydrogen storage would be underground. Very cheap and more efficient than using ammonia.

If underground storage is not available (lack of proper geology), the scheme could be synthesis of methanol, with oxyfuel combustion (Allam cycle) using oxygen from electrolysis, and with the CO2 stored for recycling to produce methanol. The CO2 and oxygen would be stored as refrigerated liquids.

> (The lithium alone would be orders of magnitude more than what is forecast to be needed for EVs.)

I don't believe this is true, not even close. The US has more than a quarter of a billion motor vehicles. A Tesla has about 70 kWh of storage and about 10 kg of lithium, so that's 17 TWh of storage. An optimal "synthetic baseload" for the US from wind and solar might use 6 hours of battery storage (and e-fuels). US average power production is about 500 GW, so six hours is about 3 TWh of batteries. Even if you multiply that a bit to assume less transmission and need for peaking storage it's still not "orders of magnitude" more than for EVs.) All this is even assuming Li-ion batteries would be used for stationary storage instead of the Na-ion batteries now coming on the market.

Were you assuming many days or weeks of batteries would be needed? That's the beauty of also using e-fuels; the batteries can be reserved for the short term storage they're truly suited for.
That's not possible with current web tech, is it?

Different webapps can't share common dependencies stored in localstorage afaik.
No, this is just ahistorical revisionism. Smith opposed pretty much all forms of economic rents because they’re a parasitic drag on the productive use of both labor and capital. He would be on board with none of what you describe. Go read the Wealth of Nations, chapter 11.
I'm a landlord for a property in Berkeley. I've rented exclusively to students for the last 25 years. If I weren't there to do that, where would the students stay? They certainly can't afford to buy the house.

Landlords manage liquidity in the market, and maintain the property. Good landlords do serve a purpose. I teach my tenants, who are often renting for the first time in their life, how to not get screwed by other landlords. I point out to them all the places that they could get screwed. I tell them to take pictures of everything when they move in and have me sign it. I tell them that in Berkeley, they get interest on their deposit every year.

And when it comes time to raise the rent, I don't gouge them. I usually let them keep the rent from the year before if they choose to stay a second year. On the third year I only raise it slightly. I've found that undercharging from market rates gets me better tenants who take good care of the property.

And I know that there is no such thing as a rental unit that can't be filled, only one that is too expensive. When the market goes down, I lower the rent, because I'm smart enough to know that it will take me multiple years at the higher rent to make up for just one lost month of rent.

I'm curious what your solution to housing liquidity would be without landlords. How would people who have no need or desire to stay in one place more than year find a place to sleep?
This really depends on if the letter of the law is favorable to tenants or not.

And big corporate landlords can easily slide into the same territory any big corporation is in: they break laws because they have enough lawyers and money that individuals basically cannot win a legal battle against them
on the contrary. captialism is the only system that promotes decency. all the others are worse at it
Yes, but you can do that with a leaf blower too. Maybe their jet is a little special to extend the range of "tractor beaming" but the don't say much about that either.
Do you believe that people who claim to be injured by a vaccine are lying or their perceived injuries are psychosomatic?
Some chefs do use them and advocate for them.
The white male college graduates, usually of the neoliberal/libertarian persuasion, who earnestly believe in meritocracy. The ones who truly that their abilities got them where they are and that they are better than those who don't share the same accomplishments.
I wonder if this article is ragebait but I do feel kinda irked when I read things like this.

Coming from a place where the price you see is the price you pay (i.e. most of the world), the US surprised me with the taxes on checkout, then the business's fees, then the waiter tips, then the fucking "valet" who block off the parking lot and gave me no option but to use their "valet" service. By the time I finish paying everything, it could cost double or more what I was seeing on the menu.

I am surprised these things are treated as normal.
They're starting to make the switch. Here's one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfbYtJXa858#t=4m13s
funk yes!
And add the most important piece of info - torque level for a human hand
Wait, isn't the mouse screwed from the beginning though?

One read I get is that the cat is making friends with the mouse so that, specifically in the lean times, it'll be able to eat his "friend", while also not sacrificing any hard-earned payoff in the good times.
I get the general idea, but in this case I feel that isn't strictly applicable.

OP and the parent comment are focused on tenants that don't appear to have done anything wrong or unreasonable, they're just in a bind and the landlords in question are choosing not to be fair.
Also using Lorem Ipsum makes it easy to tell at a glance whether the site/app is using real text. Using generated real text would require a bit more thought to verify that the generated text should be replaced.
In Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher talked about how capitalism through the institution of the corporation developed the very byzantine bureaucracies and middle men that had long been called out as failures of the Soviet system, and in some ways, proved to be even more inefficient.
Very cool stuff! Exciting to see so many people sharing their works on KANs. Seeing as the authors claim that KANs are able to reduce the issues of catastrophic forgetting that we see in MLPs, I thought "Wouldn't it be nice if there was an LLM that substituted MLPs with KANs?". I looked around and didn't find one, so I built one!

- PyTorch Module of the KAN GPT

- Deployed to PyPi

- MIT Licence

- Test Cases to ensure forward-backward passes work as expected

- Training script

I am currently working on training it on the WebText dataset to compare it to the original gpt2. Facing a few out-of-memory issues at the moment. Perhaps the vocab size (50257) is too large?

I'm open to contributions and would love to hear your thoughts!

https://github.com/AdityaNG/kan-gpt

https://pypi.org/project/kan-gpt/
Very accurate:

> However, all humans listen to people that they think are like themselves. Naturally, we place more weight on people with whom we have a common reference point.
1) Land tax. See Georgism [0]. Would be a great direction for society to go in.

2) Well, you can make something like 5% buying bonds. So if renting a house is making less than that people will sell the house then go buy bonds which are lower risk. The logic of alternative opportunities suggests the rate of profit for renting out a house won't change much.

I'd expect that profits would drop by a bit and then the supply of rentals would adjust if a bunch of landlords want to leave the market. But IMO most renters aren't in a position to buy houses so I don't think the supply would be able to contract by much. So I think the net effect is profits would drop a bit and then life continues.

Doesn't matter if I'm wrong on that point though. Whatever happens it'd still be an improvement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I don't. Deliberately exposing people to risk for fun?
Hey if the landlords are tired of renting out property because it's too hard they could sell instead!

No sympathy for rent seekers that would rather let their buildings sit empty than rent below the absolute maximum they can get
Yes, it does matter. While there are plenty of situations where it's foolish to forbid calculators, that's not universally true.

Forbidding calculators and requiring students to do mental math for absolutely everything is unnecessary. But requiring students to solve integrals by hand when they're learning about integrals? Entirely reasonable.

If your goal when teaching coding is to teach the mechanical process of writing code: sure, go ahead and use LLMs for that process. But if your goal is to develop a deeper understanding of how to code, then LLMs can very easily obscure that. The end goal is not always just the answer.
Hamas is an overtly genocidal organization; their charter says it in plain language

The 2017 Charter absolutely does not, and if you think it does you'll have to cite specific paragraphs to back up this view. In fact it specifically rejects antisemitism and goes on further to say:

Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds.
I’m sorry - this is pretty bizarre; especially considering this is a public school like Berkeley.

Wouldn’t the school just expand their housing and own the homes - like many other schools globally? One could even argue your presence is a net negative for students. Had the housing near Berkeley not become a speculative asset, the school would likely own it and rent it at a much cheaper rate.
I would say the BSDs and Linux differ in two major ways (to a neophyte, at least):

1) is that BSDs use a monorepo - the kernel and userland are all developed by the same team in the same place, rather than GNU coreutils on top of the Linux kernel, packaged by a number of different distros.

So each of the 4 major BSDs (Free, Net, Dragonfly, and Open) are full operating systems with their own teams and priorities. They share code and history (Dragonfly is a fork of Free, Open is a fork of Net; all are derived from 4.4BSD in the early 90s) but have diverged into their own niches. GhostBSD, TrueNAS, opnSense, and GhostBSD are downstream "distros" of FreeBSD.

2) is the license: whereas Linux and GNU use the copyleft Gnu Public License, the BSDs use a permissive license. This means that BSD code can be used in proprietary software (including but not limited to Sony's Playstation OSes and Windows(!!) [ever wonder why the Windows HOSTS file is in such a weird location...?]) and merged into Linux. But GPL code cannot be added to BSD.

Copyleft vs permissive licensing is a bit of a religious disagreement in the FLOSS world.
> But I don't know if it can be proven there do not exist non-prime P/Q values which produce an RSA keypair which can successfully encrypt/decrypt messages. I'm sure this isn't kosher for a real implementation, but I've never found an answer.

If p and q are coprime Carmichael numbers then RSA will still successfully encrypt and decrypt messages, though this will be less secure as p*q will have smaller prime factors and thus be easier to factor.
> Safari is the only browser that doesn't support extending HTML element

That's a pretty big thing. I did not know.

I have custom elements on this web page, but I haven't had anyone complain that the image doesn't show (or shows up twice) under iOS: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap10/content.html
An included tip is called a commission. Tips are offered at the customer’s discretion based on the level of service provided.

An included tip would incentivize getting customers out the door to get new butts in the seats and collect more included tips.

If business owners want to incentivize their workers to do a good job the knob they have available is the base wage.
The key issue is human engineering and ergonomics which are all too often overlooked by over zealous advocates of new technology.

These issues are not just 'what ifs' but actual problems for a significant percentage of the population, and it's simply discrimination to ignore these people.

For example, a personal instance: I live in Sydney and only last Thursday, I needed to top up the credit on my equivalent of London's
Oyster card (which we copied) and I went to the only machine on Central Station's Grand Concourse only to find that it refused to read three brand new $50 bills (each bill was inserted multiple times and rejected). I then went to the nearby information centre where each of the three persons in the booths had a sign in front saying 'no cash accepted.' I was then told that except for the machine that the Station did not take cash and to top up the card with cash that I had to go to independent shops which were technically outside the Station's precinct.

Frankly, that's a fucking outrageous situation. The Government still issues cash as legal tender, and yet the main railway station in Australia's biggest city won't take cash for a ticket. Keep in mind Central Station is not [yet] run by private enterprise but by the NSW State Government!

BTW, I am no Luddite, I've worked in high tech for years. In fact, I ran the IT Operation for a Government Department [so I'm well acquainted with the ways of bureaucracy], and the rude awakening one has in such a job is that tech that's seemingly straightforward for most people and certainly a no-brainer for technical people—and of course those 'selling' the tech—is actually a problem for a percentage of the population. In fact that percentage can be typically as high as 15%.

If you think this 15% of the population should be relegated to a Soylent Green - like solution then that's your prerogative but it's certainly not mine.

As tech becomes more advanced this dichotomy will become even more pronounced and unless taken into account then social disruption could easily result. (I know this message isn't popular with tech elites—as witnessed by those who down-voted my original comment—but shooting the messenger won't solve anything.)

If you're in tech then you ought to take cognizance of these issues.
I have had the exact opposite experience. Lived with a landlord for a year (he inherited the property as part of a trust), and he was the nicest guy whenever it came time to sign a lease or extension, but as soon as the paperwork was signed he was a jackass to most tenants. It also didn't help that he didn't have a job, and was attempting to pay for all of his living expenses using money from the rent (which led to him trying to nickel and dime the tenants for everything).

My experience with professional companies has been very good. The managers aren't trying to micromanage the tenants, and as long as you're not causing problems they are usually quite reasonable if anythings comes up.
> Of course they are.

"Competition is for losers."
> but haven’t figured out the best way to do that...

The best way is whatever the musician has available and is comfortable sharing. Allow any of the embeddings or ability to upload a clip you’ll host. Start with the easiest and ping your subscribers each time you add another one.
That's a ridiculous idea. If you commit suicide because of years of depression that you can't get out of and don't have any positive outlook on the future, you wouldn't care about wisleblowing and bringing some bad rep to a company.

And especially you wouldn't cover up your suicide. You wouldn't want to lie to your family about the cause of your dead just to get back at some company you worked for.

I don't think this is a good theory. I don't see the logic in that. Much more logical if he was assassinated because he was spreading info that people with big money didn't want out.
Unless the comments are cherrypicked, it seems that the law is hitting the spot.

It’s bad that it won’t apply to doordash & c (why?) btw, I hope it’s just a matter of time.
oh boy now i don't know how to feel about all the mosquitoes i have been swatting this entire winter season
Yes I was hoping to see some actual repos of boilerplate code. Just listing what libraries/languages go into a stack seems to lack usefulness.

It's like if I was looking for some Redux boilerplate and I just get linked to Redux.
This seems to be coming more from an environmental standpoint, not being effective
> To quote Joe Provenzano: if consciousness is an illusion, who (or what) is being illused?

"What" is the right question here, and because it's not "who", the hard problem disappears. What is being illused is a system that processes perceptions and generates thoughts like "I exist".
Any good chefs?
But they’re actually separate services. What do they charge if not service fees? It’s their entire business.
Flipping burgers and making french fries is a lot of labor. When you aren't up to your elbows in grease you are up to your elbows in some cleaning up between rushes and the pay is low so if you want to live you better have a second gig. Your check between your 2 jobs only says 55 hours a week but in reality between community and preparing for work and lunch breaks you are out of the house at least 65 hours a week or about 3400 hours. It eats your entire life!

Conversely being a landlord isn't even really a job. Once every 3 years you spend a few hours overseeing the skilled labor needed to do any repairs and updates and a few more hours interviewing 2-4 tenants and in between you mostly cash checks or fire off a few angry letters if the tenant gets behind. Spending less than 20 hours per year per unit.

An average mom and pop owns 1-3 units and works less in a year what a low wage worker works in a week.
Related. Others?

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40097045 - April 2024 (14 comments)

'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092985 - April 2024 (270 comments)
Any idea if they're precision engineered out of something exotic? Maybe machined from single-crystal titanium or something.

Asking because there's a bit of a different between standard consumer grade stuff, and specialist high performance things designed for a specific exotic environment.
Yup! Still used all the time! And both (IMHO) super un-ergonomic.
For a good introduction to the problematic social and political content of many Disney films - Dumbo definitely included - I highly recommend Lindsay Ellis' video "Woke Disney" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1ffHa47YY